From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f05f6c2ca4c91ddd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Dave Wood Subject: Re: long term viability of Ada Date: 1996/09/22 Message-ID: <3245AFBF.3E28@thomsoft.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 184784513 sender: news@thomsoft.com (USENET News Admin @flash) x-nntp-posting-host: wood2 references: <324219D1.15FFEF33@bright.net> <01bba6ce$f10dae20$488371a5@dhoossr.iquest.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Thomson Software Products mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) Date: 1996-09-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > Greg A Barnett wrote in article > <324219D1.15FFEF33@bright.net>... > > They claim > > that since the DoD is abandoning Ada (their words, not mine) and since > > there is very little commercial use of Ada in the US (again their > > words), Ada is a dead language that won't be around in 5-10 years. "Commercial use" is a very broad category. In some segments, Ada is well used, in others it is a tiny niche in the US. In any event, Ada is a long way from being dead. She's had a pretty bad head cold for the past couple of years, but she's now feeling much better and ready to go back to work. In fact, we've noted an increasing trend in people looking to move *from* C++ *to* Ada 95. Right now, I would consider this to be essentially anecdotal because at this point only a few true Ada 95 compilers have hit the market. An evaluation at this time next year would provide a much more reliable barometer of the long-term prospects for Ada, in my opinion, both because there will be more Ada 95 compilers available, and because the ones currently available will have been around longer. -- Dave Wood -- Product Manager, ObjectAda for Windows -- Thomson Software Products -- http://www.thomsoft.com